A bit of a misleading cover today - the figure who actually strides into the room where the Avengers are partying continues the party, rather than shutting it down. Well, at least until a bizarre energy pulse draws them all outside to investigate.
Today's issue leads directing into one of Marvel's most famous crossovers - Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars. Though initially planned as a marketing promotion for a toy line, the Secret Wars series has had long-lasting ramifications on the Marvel U, not least of which was Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic's masterful destruction of the Marvel multiverse in their own Secret Wars series a few years back. But this particular issue leads me to a dilemma. I was only going to read the Roger Stern-scripted issues of this particular run, but MSHSW is a Jim Shooter-written piece. Perhaps I'll skip over it for now, and get straight back to the actual series. I have to think that there were people at the time who didn't read the event series, and whose knowledge of it was purely based on hearsay in other titles. The series lasted a whole year, but the heroes who vanished into the Beyonder's device at the end of this issue show back up in the very next one. It'll be interesting to see how this is handled by the creative team on Avengers.
Aside from this, not much else happens in today's comic. It really is about the Avengers celebrating weddings, recoveries, and returns to active duty. The Vision is still acting a bit out of character, an ongoing concern since his melding with Titan's I.S.A.A.C., but it really could just be a newfound sense of confidence. The Vision is an interesting character in this way - we see him learning human behaviours. And where our own learning of such behaviours comes naturally through exposure to various others in our lives as we grow up, Vision is trying to play catch-up on a lifetime of such exposure. But I think we all know better than to assume that such a shift in personality is benign...
To be continued.
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